PAGE F CYUR Published Tuesday through Sat. aria, mornings inclusive) deft thi University year by the staff 3f The Daily Collegian of flu Pennsylvania State University- Entered as second-chew matter Jute 4. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Pool Office DAVE JONES. Edikci STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Al Goodman; Copy editors, Paddy Beahan, Betty Koster; As sistants, Joe Beau Seigneur, Bill Pete, Nancy Gray, Inez Althouse, Margie Pearce. New Seating Plan Needs Repair One of the sorest questions before the student body in recent years has been the amount of seating space in Recreation Hall. The student body had long complained that there was not enough space to take care of both the students and non-students. In compliance with this feel ing, access to Recreation Hall generally was limited to the students. In the fall of 1952, the question of seats was again brought before the student body. Alle gations were made that Rec Hall was at times not filled to capacity, and that tickets could have been sold to non-students. Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the College of Phys ical Education and Athletics, brought forward a suggestion that would have provided a num ber of seats for sale at the door. There were several aspects to the idea. Selling tickets at the door would provide additional revenue— revenue that could conceivably cover, or help to cover, the cost of operation. There was also the consideration of helping to improve student-faculty relations as well as student-town relations. The matter was presented to All-College Cab inet, most of whose members had been at the first Student Encampment at Mont Alto where it was decided everything possible should be done to improve relations, all around. Cabinet—and the student body in general— rose up like a wounded bull and denounced the whole plan as a- scheme to deny the students their rights and privileges. Proponents of the plan retreated and ruffled hairs smoothed down. Last year the Athletic Association kept count of attendance at Rec Hall and announce•. Introducing a New Twist to Discipline The Association of Independent Men Judicial Board of Review has gone slightly overboard in attempting to turn destruction into construc tion. Earlier this- week, the board recommended to the University that 34 students involved in a dormitory beer party donate blood to pay for their misconduct. For those unable to donate blood, a comparable punishMent would be desig nated. The comparable punishment is yet to be determined. The idea behind the recommendation was to do something constructive in the way of punish ment. Certainly, those who would receive the blood see much constructiveness in this move. But what of those who are asked to donate? Blood donations seem a little too personal for punishment in a civilized community. Justice may confine a man, put him on bread and water. even put him to death. But not many cultures really ask for blood. This, of course, is stretching the, situation. Ii is not a case of bleeding students for their evils. But the idea of asking for blood is a bit repul- Swedish Gym Meet: An Athletic Milestone Too much cannot be said for the coming_gym nastics meet between Penn State and the Swed ish national team, scheduled for Jan. 16 in Recreation Hall The meet marks another milestone in the colorful history of Penn State sports. Digni taries representing both the Swedish and United States governments will be present. Life maga zine, and many metropolitan newspapers from all over the nation will cover the meet, and motion pictures will be taken to be shown later on television. But more important, Penn State has been honored in being selected to compete with the Swedes during their extensive tour of this country. The Swedish team will make 30 stops during its whirlwind trip, but will actually compete with only five teams. Along with Penn State, Florida State University, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois, and the Mid- West Gymnastics Association, will . offer com petition. Penn State Coach Gene Wettstone, who was an Olympic coach during the 1952 games, has rated his team a good chance to beat the foreign squad, a team which has been judged one of the best in Europe today and includes all the mem bers of the 1952 Swedish Olympic team. It has just completed a successful tour of European nations, including Russia. But no matter which club is victorious, Penn State students and State College residents for tunate enough to witness the meet will see one of the most dazzling exhibitions of gymnastics available today. Swedish gymnasts have enjoyed a world-wide reputation for many years. The nation's teams have won Olympic honors several times and to day over a quarter million men and women in the country participate in the sport. Wettstone praised the Swedish style of gym nastics in a recent article sent to future hosts of the team. " Effortless grace and simplicity of style characterize this Swedish team," Wettstone wrote, "and one sight at the skill and precision of their calisthenic outine will be enough to convince anybody that it is gymnastically out standing." Penn State students" need not be told about Tilt° Batty Catirgian .chtiettzt,.. iegtoerip.thimegiVrawt. ant necessarily the volley et the newspaper. Ususigned editorials. are by the editor. Successsr to SHE eRrE LANCE, cot. MI? THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. , i.. , _ - it was never filled to capacity. In the spring, a new plan was proposed to cabinet and passed. The new plan provides that students shall exchange tickets in their AA books for tickets to Rec Hall. Such exchange was to continue until the night of the athletic event. Remaining seats would 'be sold to non-students, but the plan also called for at least 300 tickets to be put up for sale. The situation as it now exists-seems somewhat short of expectations. Students have the right to exchange tickets and demand seats until game time. There is no way for the AA office to know how many seats will be available until the last minute. The AA office should try to make as much money as reasonable on the unused seats. But who among the non-student body is willing to stand around until game time to be told that there are no seats available. If there are 300 seats to be sold in any situ ation, then a condition which now exists is the same that was proposed to cabinet in the fall of 1952—that seats would be set aside for non- students. One of the difficulties cited by the AA office is the use of seating space to store coats. No one wants to spend a couple of hours balancing a coat on his lap in a usually warm building. Ex cept for erecting a larger recreation building, probably the only solution to this problem will lie in providing space for checking coats. ' In any event the seating plan will need an - ,verhauling. The situation as it exists today is - a waste of energy. sive. If students are permitted to give blood to compensate for violation of University regula tions; blood may soon be flowing in the streets. Perhaps the most objectionable part of the recommendation is that it places blood dona tions on a par with penalties. Donating blood is a rather altruistic act. If it is lowered to the status of penalty, the supply may some day be come even more scarce than it now• is. For those who cannot donate blood, an alter native has been mentioned. The alternative, unfortunately, has not been drawn out. It is probable the alternative will not be of equal magnitude to donating blood. In this event, Some students would be penalized more harshly The deviation in discipline does not seem justi pied in this case. The AIM judicial board is to be commended on its attempt to make a penalty constructive. This type of discipline has been too often lack ing at Penn State. But it is doubtful if a recom mendation to donate blood is desirable. What is more, it is doubtful if the University has juris diction to enforce such a recommendation, or would want to enforce it. their own team. The Lions, guided by Wettstone, won both the Eastern and National champion ships last year, and will undoubtedly be favored to repeat again Another important point is the international flavor of the event. The tour was originated as a goodwill trip, not sponsored by either govern ment, but . a voluntary venture. There are no monetary gains. Proceeds of the various exhi bitions will pay expenses of the Swedish team. Penn State hospitality and enthusiasm in undertakings of this nature have always been of an exceptionally high reputation. With the scheduling of this outstanding event, the stu dent body is being given an opportunity to raise the University's prestige, better international relations, and see one of the most sparkling athletic contests ever held here. Let us make the most of it. Gazette .. Today SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGI NEERS MEETING, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie Hall. NEWMAN CLUB DISCUSSION, 7:30 p.m., 106 Osmond. NITTANY GROTTO, 7:30 p.m., 121 M.I. POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Home Economics Living Center. INFIRMARY John Arnold, Walter Campbell, Arnold Dal ton, Ruth Ann Fitz, Donald Garber, David Grove, Jeannette Kohl, William Matthews, Joseph Mijares, Dean Moyer, Joseph Russo, Jane Schrope, John Seastone, Carolyn Stehly, Catherine Stewart, Margaret Troutman, Carl Von Wolffradt, Nancy Wenner, Archie Williams. PLACEMENT SERVICE LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY representa tives will visit the campus Jan. 13 to interview Ph D. can didates in Physics, Math. Chem. (Inorganic or Physical)• and Metal. expecting to receive their degrees in 1954, M.S. can didates in Phys., Math., Chem., (Inorganic or Physical) and Metal, who have completed at least one semester, and grad uates in the above fields who wish to consider summer work. CAMP DELWOOD in the Poconos will interview students here on Feb. 16, who are interested in counselors' positions. Interested students may sign ap foe appointment at the employment office. Sr the set of March ,3. 1819 Already —Dick Eau —Dick McDowell Asst. Sports Editor Little Man - on Campus "I'd like to see th' look on th' hostess's face when she hears about this. Mademoiselle Cotombe Whispering Gallery. Over the holidays we dropped into . the Forrest Theatre in Phila delphia to catch the pre-Broadway-tryout of Julie Harris' new foot light vehicle "Mademoiselle Colombe." Wandering along Walnut street we stumbled into former Play ers' stage manager Mesrop Kesdekian, who we thought was busy studying in Ireland. Seems Mike had been in Philly for three and a half weeks studying' directing under Harold Clurman, director for "Colombe " While we were talking on the street in front of the theater, Clurman got out of a cab and stopped to instruct Mike to "tell them to leave it in." He referred to the curtain scene in the second act where the betrayed husband in a sincere attempt to determine how Colombe could be unfaithful to him, demands his brother, Col ombe's lover, kiss him as he kissed her. The scene brought an unex cepted laugh from the audience, even when the original Jean Anouilh script was first presented before the more demonstrative Parisans in France. This disturbed the backers and practices were held with and without the scene. We suspect that "Mademoiselle Colombe" underwent extensive cutting and revision before brav ing the Broadway hatchet men last night at Longacre Theatre in New York. For as seen in Philadelphia, "Colombe" represented a personal triumph. for Miss Harris and Edna Best, but a disappointment as a play. Adapted by Louis Kronenberg er, drama critic of Time magazine, the play's many saucy and de lightful sequences, mixed at times with real drama, are disjointed and shrouded by moments of con fusion and skulduggery. We found the opening dialogue as te dious as a narrator spouting a pro logue to bring everybody up to date before the real story, begins. The plot concerns backstage life in Paris at the turn of- the century and a flower girl who becomes an actress and learns to , live a second life of pleasure outside her husband's twisted search to find reality. Lucien, the husband, looks upon the theater and the world as a fabricated Hades, endowed only with shadows and cardboard. As Columbe, the flower, girl who manages to take a lover and still remain an obedient and respectful wife for the music teacher who left her for the army, Julie Har ris is her usual magnetic self with a freshness and vitality which seems ready to _ catapult her into the very laps of the audience. In a "little girl" voice of rising and falling scales, she resurrects the lightheartedness and g a i et y 'of Paris, 1900, which the play as a whole never - s•e e -to capture I'HURSDAY, 1954 Bi_bler By CHIZ MATHIAS completely. Edna Best, as Madame Alex andra, temperamental grand dame of the theater-world and bitter rival of Sa r ah• Bernhardt, ex pounds a certain.humor and some times fire into the play. She is particularly good in the play within-a-play. On stage • she is a symbol of eternal youth,' chirping "I am 19," while offstage she is the undevoted mother of tw o grown men and the holy terror , of the backstage lot as she hobbles about with her knee pad or cane. Eli Wallach is sometimes hard to follow as the disillusioned musi cian who fell in love with Colombe at first sight. He exists in his own maladjusted world of emotional immaturty. When he rejects a de ferment and goes off to fight for France, Colombe and their child are left in the safekeeping -(?)- of Mme. Alexandra. Cinderella—like Colombe—be comes an actress and learns to live and laugh and provide a man with pleasure. Julien returns on leave informed of her infidelity. in his own blind sincerity he cannot un derstand why she has forsaken him. The author pulls a dirty • trick on his audience and a novelty lof staging. Instead of a resolution, the final scene is a touching flash back to the meeting of the flower girl and the pianist two years before and their mutual love . . . Lucien is left alone in his dilemma to whisper the curtain line, "And s 6 the story begins . . ." - while the audience is 1e f t treading clouds. ' Tonight on WDFM 7:25 .-__ Adventures in Research ---- Record Prevue 7:30 8:00 alma 8:30 _ _ 9:00 9:30 Ballet Theatre 10:30 Sign off LAVie Group Photo Schedule 'The unofficial schedule of group pictures for the 1954 La- Vie today at the Penn State Photo Shop: Lion's Paw 6:50 Penn State Club . 7:10 Sign _on Prevue Lest We Forget Hamburger Stand Semi-Paps
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